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A Closer Look at the Role of Vaping in Reducing Smoking Rates

From WHO’s Misguided Claims to Evidence: A Closer Look at Vaping’s Role in Reducing Smoking Rates Yesterday’s publication of the World Health Organization’s “Report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2023” once again discounts the …
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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
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Tobacco addiction expert calls for risk-based ranking of nicotine products

Madrid, 18.07.2023. — Doctor Josep María Ramón Torrell, head of the Bellvitge Hospital’s Smoking Unit, asked last week for a risk-based ranking of nicotine delivery products. The risk-based ranking is needed, Torrell explained, so …
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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
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19 Consumer Groups call on South Africa to stop killing harm reduction

Cape Town, 14 July 2023 — Representatives of the 19 international harm reduction groups called on the South African Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Health to embrace vaping and other alternative nicotine products as tools …
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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
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Sweden’s Public Health Agency endangers anti-smoking progress 

Sweden’s Public Health Agency endangers anti-smoking progress  Stockholm – 3.7.2023. The Swedish Public Health Agency, Folkhälsomyndigheten, has called for stronger regulation of nicotine products such as snus and e-cigarettes. According to the World Vapers …
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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
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Vapers Oppose Vaping Ban in Bangladesh

Dhaka, Bangladesh — The Ministry of Health and Family Wealth in Bangladesh initiated and processed the additional amendments to the Smoking and ‘Tobacco Products Usage (Control) (Amendment) Act, 2013’. The amendments will prohibit the …
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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
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The WHO’s misguided attacks on harm reduction & vaping continue

2.6.2023. Today, The World Health Organization (WHO)’s director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reconfirmed the organisation’s opposition against vaping and harm reduction. As reported by Politico, he stated at a press briefing that “it is not …
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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
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Consumers respond to the SANT Committee Hearing: policy makers need to focu …

1 June. Brussels, Belgium — Today, on 1 June, SANT (Subcommittee on Public Health) held a hearing on “Preventing non-communicable diseases” to focus on possible solutions. With nicotine consumption being one of of the …
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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
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MEPs call for the EU to adopt the Swedish harm reduction model

Brussels, 31 May 2023 — Today, on World No Tobacco Day, Members of the European Parliament expressed their concern with the EU’s approach towards smoking cessation and emphasised the need for a sensible, risk-based …
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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
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MEPs and consumers are calling for a new anti-smoking approach

Members of the European Parliament, together with consumer activists, call for a more open approach towards harm reduction in the EU. World No Tobacco Day on May 31 is a reminder that traditional anti-smoking …
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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
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Sweden must defend its successful harm reduction approach

May 4, 2023, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — Sweden is the most successful country worldwide in reducing smoking rates, but the Swedish approach is under pressure from the EU and the WHO. To urge the Swedish …
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Vaping can save 200 million lives and flavours play a key role in helping smokers quit. However, policymakers want to limit or ban flavours, putting our effort to end smoking-related deaths in jeopardy.
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